Self-Publishing: 7 Tips To Kick Your Ebook Sales Into High Gear

4. Stop the freebie insanity: charge more for your ebooks

“Free”works. However, free shouldn’t be your only marketing tactic. Keep this in mind: readers won’t pay for anything they can get for free.

As a corollary to that, if you’re enrolling all your ebooks into KDP Select, you may want to rethink that. Unless you have a huge publishing catalogue — I’m talking 50 or more ebooks at the very least — then you’re unlikely to make money from Select for more than a few months.

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4. Stop the freebie insanity: charge more for your ebooks

“Free”works. However, free shouldn’t be your only marketing tactic. Keep this in mind: readers won’t pay for anything they can get for free.

As a corollary to that, if you’re enrolling all your ebooks into KDP Select, you may want to rethink that. Unless you have a huge publishing catalogue — I’m talking 50 or more ebooks at the very least — then you’re unlikely to make money from Select for more than a few months.